In the early days of mobile phones, when it comes to file-sharing, Bluetooth and Infra-Red were the kings; at that time, phones weren’t smart, and these means of file-sharing aren’t effective. Later, phones became smart, but neither Xender app nor Xender Web has been designed.
To transfer files between their smartphones and computer, people resorted to either Bluetooth or USB cord, but there are some limitations. Bluetooth is very slow, and larger files can’t be transferred. USB cords get lost and get damaged easily.
For these reasons, some nice folks develop the Xender app back in 2012 in China, to help solve the problem. Now, we can share files easily with many other applications, aside from Xender. In this post, you will be taken through how you can easily use Xender Web for sending and receiving files between your phone and computer.
Let’s get started by talking a little bit about what Xender can do as an application.
Xender Web: What Is Xender?
Xender is a foremost, multiplatform, cross-platform file-sharing application developed in China. The aim of developing the app is to help users able to fulfil their sharing needs and be able to share videos, photos, music, apps, and other files easily. With the application, you don’t really need an internet connection to share files, and files can be shared at any place at any time.
The supported operating systems by the app include Android, iOS, Tizen, Windows, PC and Mac, and aside from supporting this OSes, the app supports cross-sharing between them. According to the developer of the app, Xender is 200 times fast than Bluetooth transfer, and this is the reason it is loved by over 500 million users.
Through Xender Web – which facilitates sharing between a phone and a computer – and phone-to-phone sharing, it is believed that over 100 million files are transferred daily – without a USB cord, internet connection, or installation of any PC software.
Below are the main features of the app.
Features of the Xender App
- Transfer files with flash speed
The app lets you send videos and large files in seconds. The highest speed can reach 40Mb/s.
- Share all kinds of files without restrictions
You can transfer all formats of files, from documents to music, to pictures, to videos, to apps – and even apps and games data files.
- No network connection needed
No cables, no internet, no data usage needed to use Xender; the Xender Web can be used with or without internet
- Send large files without limitation
No matter the size of your files, the app will send and receive them without limitation or restriction. The limitation is with your storage space
- Cross-platform transferring supported
Whether the OS is Android, iOS, or Windows, the app can share files between them.
- Smartphone replication
How to do you handle files transfer when you get a new phone? Manually? That’s tedious! With Xender, you can easily move mobile data like contacts, SMS, pictures, music, videos, games and any other files from your old phone to the new one in one simple step.
- File manager
Xender has an inbuilt file manager that lets you view, move or delete files you received and even to make a backup copy whenever you need to clean the phone storage.
- Check out connected friends’ mobile apps
Various applications from your friend’s phone will be introduced to your own phone when connected successfully and can be shared by one click.
- Supported languages
The support languages by the app include English, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Thai, Turkish, Hindi, German, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Vietnamese.
Xender Web: The Two Major Ways of Sharing Files on Android Phone
There are two major ways by which you can share files between your computer and Android phone via Xender Web. The first way requires the use of the internet, and it is always advisable you have more than enough data and fast internet to use the method.
The second way requires the use of the hotspot on your Android device and WiFi on your computer; this second method is the most preferred for many people as it is faster, and doesn’t require the use of the internet. In fact, this second method is the selling point of Xender.
Let go through each method.
How to Use Xender Web for Android With Internet
- To use Xender Web on your PC with internet, launch the Google Chrome browser or your preferred browser on the computer
- Go to the address bar of the browser and type https://192.168.1.101.33455. Alternatively, you can use this web address: http://web.xender.com. You will still be taken to the same web page, and the page has a QR code displayed on it. You will need code later
- If you don’t have the Xender Android app installed on your phone already, go to the Play Store to get it. You can download from trusted third-party platforms, too. Just make sure the version of the app installed on your phone the latest version
- After downloading and installing the app, launch it
- Then locate the plus sign at the top-right corner and tap on it. Doing that will bring out the different way Xender can be connected, including the use of Xender Web – which is the connection to PC – and the other things the app can do
- Then tap on Connect PC, and you will see two option: WEB CONNECT and HOT SPOT. By default, the WEB CONNECT is selected
- The next step now is to tap on the option that says SCAN
- Finally, use your Android phone camera to scan the QR code displayed on the above-mentioned webpage. Everything being equal, the code would be scanned, your phone would connect to your computer through the Xender Web page, and you will be able to import and export files
NB: Don’t forget that this method requires that you have a strong internet connection, both your phone and computer.
How to Use Xender Web for Android Without Internet
Because this method doesn’t require the use of the internet, you need to connect your computer and Android device together over a no-internet wireless connection. Here is how to use Xender Web through a no-internet wireless connection.
- Go to the WiFi option on your computer and turn it on
- Install Xender app if you don’t have it already
- Launch the app
- Then locate the plus sign at the top-right corner and tap on it
- Then tap on Connect PC, and you will see two option: WEB CONNECT and HOT SPOT
- This time, tap on HOT SPOT
- Then tap on CREAT HOTSPOT. If you get a message that asks you to open your location service because of Android policy, agree and proceed by tunning on the location service on your Android device
- Then, using your computer’s WiFi, connect to your phone’s hotspot named AndroidShare_****. The **** symbol is a random 4-digit number. The password to the connection would be given on the hotspot window in the Xander app
- Once your computer has connected to the AndroidShare_**** network, the time is right to connect to the Xender Web
- Open Google Chrome or your favourite computer browser
- Go to the address bar and enter 192.168.43.1:33455 – that’s the link to getting to the Xender Web page without the internet
- Tap on ACCEPT on your Android phone – and you should be able to manage your files from your computer now.
Accessing Xender Web With iPhone
If you own an iOS device, accessing Xender Web so that you can send and receive files is almost the same as that of Android. So, just open the app, and find where you can connect to PC. And then follow the steps needed to pair the two devices: your iOS device and your computer.
Xender for PC?
Judging by its amazing features, no doubt, Xender is a wonderful app, and everybody would want to have it on their device no matter the operating system one uses. This has led to people looking for the computer (PC and Mac) version of the app.
Sadly, it appears the developers of the app aren’t interested in making Xender for PC. The only way to use Xender on a computer is through Xender Web.
You may read it in other places online that you can get a sort of Xender for PC, by using Android emulator such as Bluestack. Yes, “that’s true.” With Bluestack and other Android emulators, you can simulate the app on your computer; however, the app wouldn’t function well, as it wouldn’t be able to read the files on your computer.
Therefore, whenever you need to use Xender on your computer, use the Xender Web steps discussed above
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